In the past twenty years the existence of code-switching among diverse immigrant communities has become the focus of frequent debates and polemics among sociolinguists and linguists all over the world. Code- switching is a linguistic process of an encounter of two or more languages and its outcome is a hybrid language. The existence of the code-switching in bilingual communities is an inevitable part of their colloquial speech. Bilinguals that regularly use two languages in their environment make use of code-switching on a daily basis. This book investigates what happens when two languages...
In the past twenty years the existence of code-switching among diverse immigrant communities has become the focus of frequent debates and polemics amo...